The year was 1972 and the life of physicist Harold Puthoff will never remain the same again. He witnessed something that he spent his whole life disproving but right there in his very presence, he saw it.

By only thinking about it, American artist and psychic Ingo Swann changed the magnetic field inside a thickly insulated vacuum container buried underground with his mind, and he did it for several seconds, to avoid it being called a fluke or luck.

Harold Puthoff, a physicist at Stanford Research Institute, was mind-blown as he saw the output of his . There was no physical reason for the reading to alter its pattern, and yet he could see it.

To confirm it was really Ingo's work, Harold told him to stop thinking about it, and as soon as he did, the unexplained changes in the magnetic field abruptly stopped.

This right here would be the basis of what would end up being a decade's worth of governmental clandestine operations that lasted decades and cost $20 million by the end of 1995, which by today's standard would be worth $ 41 million.